Elizabeth Catlett
Subtitle: An American Artist in Mexico (The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists)
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780295979403
Subjects: Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects; Black Art; Sculpture; Social Science; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Mexico; General; Individual Artist; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 1915-; African American sculptors; African American women artists; Catlett, Elizabeth,; Criticism and interpretation; Psychology
Description: "This illustrated and informative monograph is the first to document the full range of Catlett's life and work. In addition to thoroughly researching primary source materials and to critiquing individual art works with sensitivity and erudition, the author has conducted numerous interviews with Catlett and has analyzed with clarity the political context of her work and her diverse sympathies and allegiances.

Herzog examines key artistic influences and shows how Catlett transformed an extraordinary stylistic vocabulary into a socially charged statement.".

"In tracing Catlett's long and continuing career as a graphic artist and sculptor in Mexico, Herzog explores an important period in Catlett's life between the 1950s and the 1970s about which almost nothing is known in the United States. She examines the "Mexicanness" in Catlett's work in its fluent relationship to the underlying and constant sense of African American identity she brought with her to Mexico.

Herzog's solidly grounded interpretation offers a new way to understand Catlett's work and reveals this artist as a fascinating and pivotal intercultural figure whose powerful art manifests her firm belief that the visual arts can play a role in the construction of a meaningful identity, both transnational and ethnically grounded."--BOOK JACKET.